A new labour law for platform workers and umbrella companies

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Author(s): Pietro Ichino

Publication date (Print): Winter 2018

Journal: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

Keywords: labour law, labour market, technological innovation, gig economy, platform worker, dependent contractor, independent worker

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This article highlights one aspect of technological evolution which impacts the labour market and, consequently, our labour law systems: the advent of so-called labour platforms, entailing disintermediation in the matching of supply and demand for labour. It examines the prospects for the future development of instruments aimed at ensuring that platform workers obtain a minimum level of adequate occupational, financial and welfare security.

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Journal ID (doi): 10.13169

Journal ID (publisher-id): workorgalaboglob

Title: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

ISSN (Print): 1745641X

ISSN (Electronic): 17456428

Publication date (Print): Winter 2018

Volume: 12

Issue: 2

Pages: 12-22

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DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.12.2.0012

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[1] Aghion, P. & B. Hermalin (1990) ‘Legal restrictions on private contracts can enhance efficiency’, Journal of Law, Economics & Organization , 6 (2):381–409.

[2] Belloni, A. (2017) Uberization. Il potere globale della disintermediazione [Uberization. The global power of disintermediation], Milan: Egea.

[3] Cascio, F. & R. Montealegre (2016) ‘How technology is changing work and organizations’, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behaviour , 3:349–75.

[4] Coase, R. (1988) ‘The nature of the firm’, Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization , 4:19–32. A translation into Italian was published in R. Coase, Impresa, mercato e diritto [Business, market and law], collected by M. Grillo, Bologna, 1995.

[5] Harris, S.D. & A.B. Krueger (2015) ‘A proposal for modernizing labor laws for twenty-first-century work: The independent worker’, Discussion Paper, The Hamilton Project, December.

[6] Knight, F.H. (1921) Risk, Uncertainty and Profit , Chicago: Houghton Mifflin.

[7] Passarelli, G.S. (1979) Il lavoro ‘parasubordinato' ['Parasubordinate’ work], Milan: Angeli.

[8] Smith, R. & S. Leberstein (2015) Rights on Demand: Ensuring Workplace Standards and Worker Security in the On-Demand Economy , New York: National Employment Law Project.

[9] Taylor, M. (2017) Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices , London: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy.

[10] World Employment Confederation (2016) ‘The Future of Work – White Paper from the Employment & Recruitment Industry’, World Employment Confederation, The voice of Labour Market Enablers, Brussels, September.

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